Ezekiel - 45:22



22 On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.

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And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
And the prince on that day shall offer for himself, and for all the people of the land, a calf for sin.
And upon that day shall the prince offer for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.
And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering.
And on that day, the prince shall offer, on behalf of himself and on behalf of all the people of the land, a calf for sin.

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And upon that day,.... The fourteenth day of the month Nisan; the first day of the passover, as Kimchi observes:
shall the prince prepare for himself, and for all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering; here everything again is new, as the above Jewish writer observes; no one circumstance according to the law of Moses; which shows that this respects Gospel times; when the law would be null and void, the types and shadows gone, and the antitype take place, Christ the sum of all; under the law, every family was to prepare a lamb for themselves; but here the prince is to prepare for himself, and all the people of the land; by that it was to be a lamb, here a bullock, and that for a sin offering; whereas not a bullock, but a goat, was used for a sin offering. Christ himself is this Prince, and who has prepared himself a sacrifice, even for himself, his church, which is mystically himself; and to make atonement for all those sins which he took upon himself by imputation, and made his own; even for all his chosen people, and for all their sins: of his preparing this sacrifice, both to be offered up, and to be held forth in the ministry of the word; see Gill on Ezekiel 45:17, and who is very fitly represented by a bullock for his labouriousness and strength, in bearing the sins of his people, when he became an offering for them.

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